My Dear Brother – Sireli Yeghpayris in Armenian – represents Armenians in Turkey 100 years ago with postcards from the collection of Orlando Carlo Calumeno.
The exhibition comprises of 500 photographs of postcards depicting the presence of Armenians within the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
It aims to start building bridges between Turkish and Armenian communities and creating a space for peace and dialogue by referencing their common social history. It is a photo exhibition accompanied by a series of lectures by its curator Osman Köker.
This is a unique project targeting both the Armenian and Turkish communities in NSW. The grandchildren of the survivors of the 1915 deportations and the broader Turkish community in Sydney will both benefit from this work of social history depicting the times of ‘convivencia’ (living together) and allow them to rethink perceptions one another as ‘the other’.